Getting CEO performance management and appraisal right

Event date

15/10/2025

Time

6-8pm

Location

Zoom

This hands-on two-hour workshop provides expert guidance on the key considerations for carrying out CEO performance reviews. Learn how to support your CEO’s development while improving trust-wide outcomes.

What you'll learn

This course will equip participants with the understanding needed to confidently undertake an CEO appraisal now; it is also intended to be a catalyst for the future review and improvement of existing appraisal processes

By the end of this course, participants will:

Understand their role in the CEO performance management cycle

Recognise the link between CEO performance and trust-wide outcomes

Be more confident in conducting effective CEO appraisals

Understand how to use evidence and feedback to support or challenge CEO performance

Know how to set clear, strategic, and measurable objectives and monitor these

Understand how to make sensible performance-related remuneration decisions

Meet DfE accountability requirements

Costs

NGA membership offers you substantial savings on this course and access to much more and there are discounts for group bookings.

Members

£85

per person

Group discounts

£75

2-4 people

£65

5+ people

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Non-members

£105

per person

Group discounts

£90

2-4 people

£80

5+ people

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Who is the programme for?

Trustees (especially Chairs and appraisal panel members) in a Multi-Academy Trust
HR professionals supporting Multi-Academy Trusts
Governance professionals involved in arranging CEO appraisal

What are the benefits?

Expert led focus on setting-specific good practice
Sharp insights into challenges, pitfalls and how to avoid them
Small group interactivity for richer understanding
Tried and tested templates to support the appraisal process

How you’ll learn

The session will be take place online via Zoom

It will be interactive with a mixture of participant activities and facilitator-led explanation and discussion.

The focus of the session will be on facilitated discussion of key considerations including:

Specific objective setting and the link with a trust’s strategic priorities

Informed framing and monitoring of the general performance expectation

How to deal with underperformance successfully

Monitoring of performance against objectives

Setting of performance- related remuneration packages

The session will be led by a quality-assured NGA consultant with extensive experience in CEO appraisal, both as a MAT trustee and chair, and as an independent expert appointed to support boards through this process.

Participants will receive a comprehensive resource pack and templates to help implement learning in practice.

Meet the trainer

Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins has thirty years’ experience of school governance including chairing a large multi academy trust, governing boards of primary and secondary schools and academies and the Education and Personnel Committee of a very large national multi academy trust. As an NGA consultant Stephen undertakes External Reviews of Governance and Headteacher/CEO performance management support and facilitates training for chairs, clerks and boards. Stephen is a trained Ofsted inspector and has extensive headship (primary and secondary) and school improvement support experience. As a qualified coach (Institute of Leadership and Management and the International Authority for Professional Coaching and Mentoring) Stephen has extensive experience of supporting school leaders and senior executives.

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